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Green light : toward an art of evolution
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- Creator
- George Gessert
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xxiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780262014144, 0262291584, 0262014149, 0262265893, 9786612638206, 1282638203
- OCLC
- ocn646069118, ocn437054130
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Divine plants and magical animals -- Aesthetic effects of domestication -- The rainforests of domestication -- The rise of ornamental plants -- Darwin's sublime -- Playing God -- Standards of excellence -- Doubles -- Kitsch plants -- Bastard flowers, genetic goofies, and Freud's bow wows -- Biotechnology in the garden -- Recent art involving DNA -- Naming life -- Anthropocentrism and genetic art -- The angel of extinction -- Seven breeding complexes -- The slowest art -- Breeding for wildness